Venerable Chapter 23: Chapter 23: What the hell is going on!

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"Aaahhhh!" "My leg! My leg, it hurts so much!" Boj screamed in agony. The stone slab had crushed his right leg completely. He was totally stuck and could not even move an inch. Dustin and everyone else ran toward him immediately. Dustin dodged two more stone slabs that were falling from the ceiling. 'What the hell is going on?' Dustin thought. 'What are all these earthquakes for? Is the new event starting right now?' They quickly reached Boj and shielded him from the falling rocks until the violent shaking finally stopped. "Arghhh!" Boj cried out again. Dustin and Mark quickly lifted the huge stone that was pinning Boj's leg and threw it aside with a heavy thud. Boj was still screaming in pain. "Quickly, everyone take out all your healing potions," Gareth commanded. He took a healing potion from his supply carrier, popped the cork, and helped Boj drink it. Even after drinking the whole bottle, there was not much of an effect. Boj was still in agonizing pain. "Let us give him more," Arina said. She helped Boj drink another bottle, but the effect was still incredibly mild. "More." "More." "More." Arina kept feeding the healing potions to Boj. After her supply ended, she took bottles from Gareth, then from Mark, and finally from Dustin. The effect of each bottle was very small and the recovery was painfully slow. Finally, after drinking all seventeen bottles of healing potions that were available to the entire group, everyone let out a deep sigh of relief. The leg that had been completely crushed was finally restored to normal. Blood and torn flesh magically knitted back together. "Should I buy more potions from the shop?" Dustin asked while opening his system section. "No need," Boj said as he stood up with great difficulty. "I am fine. The potions will not work anymore due to an overdose, or at least that is what the system is telling me." "But you can't still walk," Mark said worriedly. "So there is a thing like an overdose," Dustin pondered. "What does it say exactly?" "It says I have taken too many healing potions at once. Due to the over dosage, they will not work on me for the next three days. If I still take them, it might cause severe side effects." "Since Boj was severely injured, let us just get out of here and leave this dungeon," Gareth said while pointing upward. "But how?" Arina asked. "We have not cleared it, so how can we leave?" "Oh," Dustin said. He looked at the massive hole in the ceiling where the stones had just fallen from. It opened up into a dark shaft. "But how will Boj climb up there?" Arina asked. "You guys just wait here. I have a way," Gareth said. He started climbing toward the ceiling by using the fallen stones as steps. After just a few minutes, Gareth reached the top of a long rock that looked like a broken pillar. It was very close to the top hole. Gareth jumped from that pillar toward the opening and reached out his hands to catch the rocky ledge. Buzz. Just as Gareth touched the stone near the hole, an invisible shield stopped his hand. It burned his skin and let out a loud buzzing sound. Gareth fell backward. He quickly used his magic to slow his descent and landed safely on the ground. He drank a healing potion to fix his burned hand. "Are you okay?" Mark asked. "I am fine," Gareth replied. "It seems we really cannot get out of here unless we complete the tasks." "But Boj can barely walk, so how is he going to fight?" Mark said while helping Boj stay balanced. "We cannot just leave him here. It is much more dangerous." "I totally agree, but we must get out of here before anyone else gets injured," Arina added. "Who knows how many times that earthquake is going to happen again. Do not forget we have a time limit of twenty-four hours to complete this dungeon. We do not even know what will happen if we fail to do so." Everyone fell into a deep predicament. The current situation was not very good. They had less than half the time remaining to complete the dungeon task. If they failed, they coul